EXCLUSIVE: Brigitte Bardot had 100 lovers - including women - and four husbands, but fame led to despair as she tried to end her life four times and abandoned the only child she ever had, reveals new book | Daily Mail Online EXCLUSIVE: Brigitte Bardot had 100 lovers - including women - and four husbands, but fame led to despair as she tried to end her life four times and abandoned the only child she ever had, reveals new book Born into a wealthy Parisian family, Brigitte Bardot was trained as a ballerina She was 16 when she met director Roger Vadim and they became lovers When her parents forbade them to marry, Bardot turned on the oven and buried her head inside She fell in love with And God Created Woman co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant ‘I’m not made to be a mother,’ Bardot confessed. ‘I’m not adult enough – I know it’s horrible to have to admit that' The out-spoken actress, now 80, has been fined for her racist comments against Muslims.

Brigitte Bardot - Biography - IMDb Brigitte Bardot Biography Showing all 73 items Jump to: Overview (3) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (4) | Trade Mark (5) | Trivia (40) | Personal Quotes (15) | Salary (5) Overview (3) 5' 5¼" (1.66 m) Mini Bio (1) Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934 in Paris, France. Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance, and she proved to be very adept at it. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was trying a modeling career, and found herself in the French magazine "Elle". Her incredible beauty readily apparent, Brigitte next tried films. In 1952, she appeared on screen for the first time as Javotte Lemoine in Crazy for Love (1952). Two more films followed and it was also the same year she married Roger Vadim .

She wanted to marry him when she was 17, but her parents quashed any marriage plans until she turned 18. The union lasted less than four years. Capitalizing on her success in French films, Brigitte made her first American production in Act of Love (1953) with Kirk Douglas , but she continued to make films in France. Brigitte's explosive sexuality took the United States by storm, and the effect she had on millions of American men who had not seen a woman like her in a long, long time--if ever--was electric. Rise to the phrase "sex kitten" and fascination of her in the United States consisted of magazines photographs and dubbed over French films--good, bad or indifferent, her films drew audiences--mainly men--into theaters like lemmings. In 1965, she appeared as herself in the American-made Dear Brigitte (1965) with James Stewart (she only appeared in one scene). Just before she turned 40, Brigitte retired from movies after filming The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973). She prefers life outside of stardom.

While it enabled her to become internationally famous, it also carried with it annoyances. It was not anything for her to have "fans" enter her house or wander around the grounds of her home in the hopes of getting a glimpse of her or to take something that belonged to her. Paparazzi constantly hounded her with their cameras. She has been so soft-hearted that some people even have taken advantage of her generosity. After her life in the spotlight, Brigitte went on to become a leading spokesperson for animal rights and started the "Foundation Brigitte Bardot" dedicated solely to that cause. Her work in that realm is, perhaps, far greater than any film she could have made. Brigitte has been married to Bernard d'Ormale since 1992 and they reside in St. Tropez. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson Spouse (4) Gapped front teeth Trivia (40) Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#9). [1995] Ranked #49 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.

[October 1997] Mother of Nicolas-Jacques Charrier (born January 11, 1960), who was raised by his father's family and did not have contact with Bardot until his adulthood. Born to Louis Bardot (1896-1975), nicknamed Pilou, who graduated from an engineering school to go into the family business, which manufactured liquid air and acetylene, and Ann-Marie Mucel (1912-78), nicknamed Toty. Toty had studied theatre and dance as a young lady, while Pilou wrote poetry in his notebook and published several volumes. Retired from acting in 1973 at age 39 and has since been involved with various animal rights causes. One of the leading animal rights activists in the world and the head of "Fondation Brigitte Bardot", which is a foundation dedicated to animal rights. Recorded many popular songs in the '60s and '70s. Breast cancer survivor. Is a vegetarian. She is one of the six surviving people mentioned by name in the 1989 Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire".

The other five are Doris Day , Queen Elizabeth II , Chubby Checker , Bob Dylan and Bernard Goetz . Her husband Bernard d'Ormale is a wealthy industrialist and supporter of the far-right French nationalist party Front National. Was charged with inciting racial hatred in her best-selling book "Un cri dans le silence" ("A cry in silence"), expressing worries about the "infiltration" of France by Islamic extremists. She could have faced a maximum prison term of one year, but was finally fined EUR 5,000. [2004] Was Marianne de France, the bust of the most beautiful woman of a decade and she is also the symbol of liberty and the Republic, from 1969-78. She has two granddaughters from her estranged son Nicolas' marriage to Anne-Line Bjerkan (daughter of a Norwegian diplomat): Anna (b. 1985) and Thea (b. 1990). She and husband Bernard d'Ormale got married in a small town outside Oslo, Norway, where her son lives with his family. Sister of Mijanou Bardot .

Sang songs "Harley Davidson", "Je Me Donne A Qui Me Plait", "Bubble gum", "Contact", "Je Reviendrais Toujours Vers Toi", "L'Appareil A Sous", "La Madrague", "Le Soleil De Ma Vie", "On Demenage", "Sidonie", "Tu Veux, Tu Veux Pas". Recorded a special audio performance for the classic "Velveteen Rabbit", produced by Pierre Patrick for Connecticut Family Theatre (2007). Named Empire Magazine's #98 in the list of 100 Sexiest Stars. [2007] Was romantically linked to actors Jean-Louis Trintignant , Patrick Gilles , Sami Frey , Laurent Vergez and Warren Beatty , bartender/ski instructor Christian Kalt, club owner Luigi Rizzi, musician Bob Zagury , producer Allain Bougrain-Dubourg , sculptor Miroslav Brozek, singers Jimi Hendrix , Gilbert Bécaud , Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel , and writer John Gilmore.

9/28/83: Took a handful of tranquilizers, washed them down with red wine and then wandered out to the Les Canoubiers beach, where she was later pulled from the surf. She was rushed to the nearby L'Oasis clinic, where her stomach was pumped before she was released that evening. Once castrated a neighbor's donkey. Brought into fashion the choucroute (sauerkraut) hairstyle. The Brazilian city of Búzios erected a statue of her in honor of her influence in popularizing the city. Was born at 5 place Violet in the 15th district of Paris. In 1967 Serge Gainsbourg wrote for and recorded with her his most noted song "Je t'aime...moi non plus", but she pleaded him not to release their recording, so her vocals were replaced by Jane Birkin one year later. Owns homes in Saint-Tropez, Yvelines and Paris. She had taken dancing lessons from age five, and when she was 13 one of her classmates in dancing class was Leslie Caron . On the set of Please, Not Now!

(1961), directed by her ex-husband Roger Vadim , she met his new girlfriend, Catherine Deneuve . About Deneuve she said, " . . . behind Vadim lingered a 17-year-old brunette who dressed like me [and] had her hair made like me. Her name was Catherine Deneuve. She had a certain air of a namby-pamby, that was back then unbearable." One night while filming on high mountains the crew got blocked so everybody slept in one room. Among the crew were Bardot, Vadim, Mireille Darc and Deneuve. In 1994, scandalized by Sophia Loren 's posing in furs in several printed ads for the Italian fur tailor company Annabella, Bardot published an open letter to Loren, in which she accused her of selling her name and her image "to the most despicable of all advertising: promotion of furs". It is, said Bardot, "degrading, repugnant, lamentable and unworthy to accept money stained with the blood of animals".

Loren, added France's leading animal-rights campaigner, should boycott "this abominable trade" and "never forget that wearing a fur is wearing a cemetery on your back". Loren, on holiday at the time, did not respond. When she discovered she had breast cancer, she first refused treatment believing it was her fate. It was her fellow actress and friend Marina Vlady who flew to her residence at Saint Tropez and convinced her to start treatment. Prior to her worldwide breakthrough in ...And God Created Woman (1956), while still a starlet, Bardot was a familiar presence in many Italian movies. She once shared a hotel room in Rome with a pre-fame Ursula Andress (mentioned in her autobiography). About this she recalled, "If only producers knew of it, they would have think twice about their way of treating us back then.". Ranked #75 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of all Time. [December 2011] She was the third name entered on IMDB, after Fred Astaire (nm0000002) and Lauren Bacall (nm0000002).

Has been characterized as anti-Muslim and anti-gay with her support for ultra-right-wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen . Established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She initially funded it by auctioning off personal possessions. Time Magazine on Bardot: "... the princess of pout, the countess of come hither. Brigitte Bardot exuded a carefree, naive sexuality that brought a whole new audience to French films.". Has attempted suicide at least six times since 1950. Her most recent reported suicide attempt was in 1992. Her look has inspired several generations of buxom blonde models to be called "baby Bardots", such as German supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Anna Ewers ; Dutch models Lara Stone , Daphne Groeneveld and Doutzen Kroes and English model Georgia Jagger . Mentioned in the song "Message of Love" by The Pretenders. Personal Quotes (15) I have always adored beautiful young men. Just because I grow older, my taste doesn't change. So if I can still have them, why not?

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can't I'll stick to animals. [when asked what was the best day of her life] It was a night... It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. [interview on her 50th birthday, London Times, September 28, 1984] I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do. I don't think when I make love. It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be. [on Sarah Palin ] By denying the responsibility of man in global warming, by advocating gun rights and making statements that are disconcertingly stupid, you are a disgrace to women and you alone represent a terrible threat, a true environmental catastrophe. [on experience] Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. I am really a cat transformed into a woman . . . I purr. I scratch. And sometimes I bite. [1987] I gave my youth and beauty to men.

Now I'm giving my wisdom and my experience, the better part of me, to animals. [2008] Apart from my husband, I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years, they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants. [why she retired from acting at 39] I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself. I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be. [2012] I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer. Suddenly, I discover that I have nothing to complain. Salary (5) Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Bardot Nationality: France Executive summary: Voulez-vous danser avec moi? Arguably film's first sex kitten, Brigitte Bardot grew up in a wealthy, conservative French Catholic family. She was named for her mother's favorite doll, and as a child wore braces on her teeth and glasses to correct astigmatism.

Bardot began studying ballet at the age of five, and at 13 she danced alongside Leslie Caron at the Conservatoire Nationale de Danse. At 14, she blossomed and was photographed for the cover of Elle magazine. At 15, Bardot met her future first ex-husband Roger Vadim , and attempted suicide when her parents refused permission for her to marry until she was 18. They married when she turned 18, and divorced five years later. She moved from modeling to acting, and played a 17-year-old nymphet (at 22) in Vadim's And God Created Woman, a role that made Bardot known internationally. She embodied a natural yet innocent sexuality that was a precursor to the sexual liberation movement of the 1960s. The actress eschewed the Catholic principles of her childhood, saying "It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be." Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to wear a bikini, and later she and her friends would be the first to sunbathe topless at St. Tropez in the late 1960s.

She was the first international star to be as popular as any homegrown pinup in the US. Long prone to depression, Bardot has attempted suicide multiple times. "I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below." On her 26th birthday she attempted her most publicly known suicide attempt, swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills and slitting her wrists. Bardot retired from films at 39, to focus on her love of animals and her increasingly odd political activism. She sold her home, her jewels, and other personal effects in 1986 to start the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which works for animal rights across the world. She has been outspoken to the point of causing international offense on the behalf of animals, and once stole a mynah bird on a French street because its owner, whom she beat with an umbrella, was "abusing" it by giving it a hamburger and fries.

Political incorrectness has dogged Bardot in recent years, being fined by the French government no fewer than four times in recent years for "inciting hatred" with her books. Her views that gays are "fairground freaks", that racially mixed marriages are an abomination, and that France is being "Islamized" have been problematic, as has her denunciation of the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim feast of Eid. Bardot was an outspoken supporter of France's failed fascist presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen . Father: Charles Bardot ("Pilou", engineer) Mother: Anne-Marie Mucel Bardot (homemaker) Sister: Marie-Jean Bardot ("Mijarout") Husband: Roger Vadim (film director, m. 1952, div. 1957) Husband: Jacques Charrier (French actor, b. 1936, m. 1959, div. 1962)) Son: Nicholas Charrier Husband: Gunter Sachs (millionaire, heir to Fichtel & Sachs, b. 1932, d.

2011 suicide) Husband: Bernard d'Ormale (right wing, allegedly racist politician) Brigitte Bardot - Photo 3 - Pictures - CBS News Brigitte Bardot French actress Brigitte Bardot rehearsing a TV show for Christmas at the ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) studio in Paris on Dec. 3, 1967 . Credit: - Ex-film star and a prominent animal rights campaigner Brigitte Bardot on July 16, 2001 after a meeting with French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in Paris. Credit: JACK GUEZ Picture taken in St Tropez, southern France, June 7, 1973, shows French star Brigitte Bardot and her friend Laurent Verges having a drink in the Club 55 beach. Credit: AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot on May 6, 2004.She was one of the best-known sex symbols of the 1950s and '60s and gained international attention as the star of Roger Vadim's "And God Created Women." Married four times, Bardot was Vadim's wife when they made the movie.

Credit: AP A picture dated July 16, 1966, shows Brigitte Bardot flanked and her third husband Gunther Sachs, right, arriving at Las Vegas after their marriage. They divorced in 1969. Credit: AFP/Getty Images Former French film star and animal right activist Brigitte Bardot acknowledges applause prior to a press conference at the Marigny theater, in Paris, on the 20th anniversary of her foundation for animal rights, The Brigitte Bardot Foundation, Sept. 28, 2006. Credit: AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere French singer Sascha Distel is seen with Brigitte Bardot in this 1958 file photo taken at Antibes, southern France. Credit: AP Photo Brigitte Bardot on Oct. 4, 1996. A vegetarian, Bardot has earned millions for her animal rights foundation by auctioning off her jewelry and other possessions. Credit: AP Brigitte Bardot talks to the press Feb. 28, 2001, after arriving at the Bucharest airport in Romania.

Bardot proposed to officials there a campaign to sterilize the city's stray dogs and, through her animal rights foundation. She has donated more than $140,000 to the sterilization effort. Credit: Kael Alford Picture taken Jan. 17, 1989, shows Brigitte Bardot playing with a dog in Cabries, France. Credit: GERARD FOUET/AFP/Getty Images An undated file picture shows Brigitte Bardot posing with dogs on the beach in Cannes. Credit: AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot, left, and director Roger Vadim, her first husband, sit at an outdoor restaurant in Saint Tropez, on the French riviera in July. They were married from 1952 to 1957. Credit: STAFF/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot, the 1960s sex symbol turned animal rights activist, poses during the 20th anniversary celebration of her wildlife foundation, Sept. 28, 2006, in Paris.

Credit: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot, the 1960s sex symbol turned animal rights activist, poses with her book during the 20th anniversary celebration of her wildlife foundation, Sept. 28, 2006, in Paris. Credit: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot walks out from a polling booth at the polling station of the Louis Blanc school in Saint-Tropez, southern France, on May 10, 1981, for the second round of the Presidential Election. Credit: RALPH GATTI/AFP/Getty Images French Actress Brigitte Bardot, left, flanked by her husband Gunter Sachs arrives in Tahiti on July 21, 1966. The two were married from 1966-69. Credit: Getty Images French actress Brigitte Bardot, with her companion Laurent Verges, right, is seen in a night-club in Saint-Tropez, on Aug. 4, 1973.

Credit: AFP/Getty Images French actress Brigitte Bardot and her husband Gunter Sachs walking in streets of Munich, Germany, on Sept. 8, 1967. Credit: Getty Images French actress Brigitte Bardot and her friend Christian Kalt spending Eastertide in Saint-Tropez on April 4, 1972. Credit: RALPH GATTI/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot on Nov. 28, 1969. Bardot started her career as a model and aspiring dancer and made more than 40 films before she retired at age 39. Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images French actress Brigitte Bardot rehearsing a TV show for Christmas at the ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) studio in Paris on Dec. 3, 1967. Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot rehearsing a TV show for Christmas at the ORTF (French Radio and Television Broadcasting) studio in Paris on Dec. 3, 1967.

Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot, with a seal baby, protests against seal-hunting in fecamp, northern France, on April 8, 1976. Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images A photo taken in the '50s shows French actress Brigitte Bardot. Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot inaugurates the exposition "100 photos of Brigitte Bradot" in Paris. Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images French actress Brigitte Bardot is waving as she boards a plane at Orly airport near Paris en route to New York on Dec. 16, 1965. Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of "La verite" directed by G.H. Clouzot on Aug. 23, 1960. Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images A photo taken in September 1952 shows Brigitte Bardot, aged 18 years old, and her sister Mijanou. Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot with American comic actor Danhny Kaye at Joinville's studio on Jan.

17, 1959. Credit: ARCHIVE/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot toasts to the coming out of her new movie "La verite" with the costar Sami Frey, left, and the film producer Henri-Georges Clouzot during a ceremony held June 1, 1960, at the Joinville Studios on the set of the now finished production. Credit: TAVOULARIS/AFP/Getty Images French film director Roger Vadim directs Brigitte Bardot in a scene of his film "Please Not Now " (La Bride sur le Cou) in 1961 in Boulogne studios. Credit: STF/AFP/Getty Images Brigitte Bardot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Brigitte Bardot Jump to: navigation , search This article or section does not cite its references or sources . You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. This article has been tagged since June 2006.

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Bardot (born September 28 , 1934 ) is a French actress , former fashion model and singer , considered the embodiment of the 1950s "sex kitten." In the 1970s after her retirement from the entertainment industry , Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist, which she continues today. During the 1990s she was outspoken about her political views on such issues as immigration , Islam in France , race mixing, and homosexuality . She is well-known for her support of French right-wing politician Jean-Marie Le Pen . Contents [ edit ] Biography Bardot was born in Paris to Anne-Marie Mucel and Charles "Pilou" Bardot, an industrialist. At an early age her mother encouraged her interest in music and dance ; she had modeled for popular magazine Elle by the time she was 15 years old. [1] [ edit ] Career In 1952, she appeared on screen for the first time in Le Trou Normand . That same year, at age 18, she married director Roger Vadim , with whom she had been romantically involved for several years.

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, her personal rise was remarkable; she has been one of the few European actresses to receive mass media attention in the United States . She and Marilyn Monroe were the icons of female sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, and whenever she made public appearances in the United States the media hordes covered her every move. Her films of the early and mid 1950s were lightweight romantic dramas, some of them historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea (1955), Helen of Troy (1954), in which she was understudy for the title role but only appears as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love (1954) with Kirk Douglas. Her French-language films were dubbed for international release. "She is every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris," said the film-critic Ivon Addams in 1955. Vadim was not content with this light fare.

The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant . The film, about an amoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a big international success. She may have had an affair with her co-star Trintignant, but this was more likely a pre-release publicity gimmick. The film is often wrongly described as her first film (it was her seventeenth) and to have launched her overnight, but it did help move her towards the cinematic mainstream. However, it also ruled out a transition to Hollywood , where she was thought too risqué to handle. The Doris Day era was in still in full swing, and even Jane Russell in The French Line (1953) had been thought to be going too far by showing her midriff.

Erotica like Bardot's Cette sacrée gamine (That Crazy Kid, 1955) was considered acceptable at the box office so long as it was clearly labelled "European." Bardot's limited English and strong accent, while beguiling to the ears of men, did not suit rapid-fire Hollywood scripts. In any event, staying in Europe benefited her image when the 1960s began to swing and Hollywood slipped into the background for a while, and Bardot was voted honorary sex-goddess of the decade. Divorced from Vadim in 1957, she married actor Jacques Charrier (1959-62), by whom in 1960 she had her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier from whom she is estranged. She once referred to her only child as "a tumour". The marriage was preyed on by the paparazzi , and there were clashes over the direction of Bardot's career. Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining to most of the world a glamour model. Poster for Bardot's film Le Mépris (Contempt).

Vie privée (1960), directed by Louis Malle has more than an element of autobiography in it. The scene in which, returning to her flat, Bardot's character is harangued in the lift by a middle-aged cleaning-lady calling her a tramp and a tart was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century. Soon after, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France and is now known to have attempted suicide, but as the sexual revolution of the early 1960s gathered momentum her lifestyle began to seem more like the norm and the pressure lifted. Through the sixties, she was happy to appear in glossy star-vehicles like Viva Maria (1969), to dabble in pop music and to play the role of glamour model and icon. In 1965 she appeared as herself in the Hollywood production Dear Brigitte (1965) starring Jimmy Stewart . Her other husbands were German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs (1966-1969), and French right-wing politician, Bernard d'Ormale (1992-present).

She has also had reputed relationships with many men including singers Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel . In the late 1950s, she shared an exchange she considered “croiser de deux sillages” with actor-turned-true-crime-author John Gilmore (writer) , then an actor in France for a New Wave film with Jean Seberg . Gilmore told Paris Match , “I felt a beautiful warmth with Bardot but found it difficult to discuss things to any depth whatsoever”. She is recognised for popularising bikini swimwear in early films such as Manina (Woman without a Veil, 1952) and in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots. She even sported an early version of the monokini from time to time. Though this was not considered extraordinary in France, it was considered nearly scandalous in the US. The fashions of the 1960s looked effortlessly right and spontaneous on her, and she joined Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy in becoming a subject for Andy Warhol paintings. In 1970, the sculptor Alain Gourdon used Bardot as the model for a bust of Marianne , the French national emblem.

[ edit ] Activism In 1974, just before her fortieth birthday, Bardot announced her retirement. After appearing in more than fifty motion pictures, and recording several music albums, most notably with Serge Gainsbourg , she chose to use her fame to promote animal rights . In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals . She raised three million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewelry and many personal belongings. Today, she is one of the world's most influential animal rights activists and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat . Considered a militant for animal protection, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country. She sought to discuss the issue with Stephen Harper , though her request for a meeting was denied [2] . [ edit ] Politics She is also one of the most celebrated supporters of Jean-Marie Le Pen , the leader of the right-wing Front National political party, with which her husband is associated. With the publication of her 2003 book, A Scream in the Silence, the reclusive Bardot has come under considerable fire for anti-Muslim , and anti-gay comments.

In May 2003, The MRAP announced that it would sue Bardot for her published views. Another organisation, The " Ligue des Droits de l'Homme " ( League of Human Rights ), announced that it was considering similar legal proceedings. Bardot, in a letter to a French gay magazine, wrote in her defense, "Apart from my husband—who maybe will cross over one day as well—I am entirely surrounded by homos. For years they have been my support, my friends, my adopted children, my confidants".[ citation needed ] On June 10 , 2004 Bardot was convicted by a French court of "inciting racial hatred" and fined 5,000 €, which was the fourth such conviction/fine she has faced from French courts. Bardot's previous comments that led to convictions included ones encouraging civilian massacres in Algeria .[ citation needed ] The courts cited passages where Bardot referred to the "Islamization of France" and the "underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam" [3] , her descriptions of France's Muslim community , the largest in Europe.

In the book she also referred to homosexuals as "fairground freaks" and she condemns the presence of women in government. [ edit ] Quotation "She is the princess of pout, the countess of come hither. Brigitte Bardot exuded a carefree, naïve sexuality that brought a whole new audience to French films." Time magazine. [ edit ] Trivia Bardot is also known as BB and was known as "Bebe" in childhood. John Lennon was known to have had an enormous crush on Bardot as a teen and for much of his adult life, and considered her to be the embodiment of female beauty and perfection. According to Lennon, by Ray Coleman , he encouraged his first wife, Cynthia , to grow and dye her hair and change her wardrobe in order to look more like her.

Bob Dylan references Bardot in his song I Shall be Free with the lines "It's President Kennedy calling me up/ He said, "My friend Bob, what'll it take to make the country grow?'/I said, 'My friend John, Brigitte Bardot...country'll grow.'" Bardot is mentioned in the Elton John song I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself from 1972's Honkey Chateau, a song about a fictional teenager's baseless anguish. The lyrics read, "I'd make an exception/ If you want to save my life/ Brigitte Bardot gotta come/ And see me every night." Brigitte Bardot Speaks! Talking Frankly with the Toast of St. Tropez | Vanity Fair Twitter CAR TALK Brigitte Bardot and then husband Roger Vadim in St. Tropez in 1956, the year Vadim offered her the role of Juliette in … And God Created Woman., PHOTOGRAPH © MICHOU SIMON/PARIS MATCH. She is 77 years old and dresses always in black—black blouse and black jeans, never a skirt, never a dress.

She wears her hair in a large bun, like a crown, and styles the hair herself. She applies her own makeup. Because she suffers from arthritis and other ailments, she sometimes uses a cane; an operation would help, but she fears the anesthesia. She lives at La Madrague, a secluded property in St. Tropez, which she has owned for more than 50 years, and she guards her privacy zealously and devotes her energies to animal rights. When I visited her there recently, she sipped champagne in the salon and made an offhand reference to her “faded beauty.” The sentiment was sincere, though the reality was frankly unconvincing. Much more persuasive was what she said about her life and her career: “If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn’t part of what I wanted to do. It wasn’t my goal.” Brigitte Bardot bought La Madrague in 1958. She had left the set of The Woman and the Puppet and come down for the weekend on the Blue Train; the only notary in St. Tropez opened his office on a Sunday in order to close the deal.

The property, shrouded in bamboo and lavender and pine, had been owned by an old woman, and the main building was unprepossessing—part boathouse, part fisherman’s shack. Bardot brought in water, gas, electricity, and her fiancé of the moment. In those early days there would be costume parties and gypsy dances in the sand. But the real appeal of the setting was something more enduring. La Madrague (the name refers to the traps once set out by local fishermen) lay on a dirt road at one end of the Bay of Canoubiers, well off the beaten track—it was all but certain to remain a sanctuary, far from the crowds that would soon engulf the South of France. Today, Bardot lives at La Madrague with her husband of 20 years, Bernard d’Ormale, a former businessman who now mainly devotes himself to his wife. Visitors are rare: the lady of the house is not eager for guests. La Madrague is a peaceable enclave, perfumed by wild herbs and flowers. Decades ago, the walls kept throngs of fans and photographers at bay. It is quieter now.

On the outside of the surrounding wall is a small trough for dogs, the basin continually freshened with water. The house itself lies beyond the dark-blue gate, overlooking the sea, its walls covered with clematis and wisteria. Inside, the furnishings are bohemian and eclectic, very casual and somehow frozen in time. A dozen dogs and cats roam the property. In the garden, under wooden crosses, lie cats and dogs who have departed. Bardot had known this area for many years: her parents owned a vacation house in St. Tropez, and she spent summers here with her younger sister. Born into a family of means, Bardot began taking dance classes at the age of seven with the aim of becoming a ballerina. After 10 years en pointe she acquired an effortless allure. Bardot’s modeling career began when she started posing for friends of her mother, who designed hats. Photographs were taken—and noticed. In 1950, at the age of 15, she graced the cover of French Elle, which led, in 1952, to her marriage to the director Roger Vadim and the first of 40 movies.

The movies initially were lighthearted romantic comedies, the plots interchangeable and forgettable. “I don’t think I was a good comedian,” Bardot says. “I contented myself to express what people asked me to interpret, and giving it my best.” But the story lines were hardly the point. On the screen the world discovered a young woman with a swan’s neck, a luscious figure, and an ostentatious bouffant who combined youth, sex, flirtatiousness, insolence, and grace, all wrapped up in a bewildering nonchalance—a heady mix. She was a new kind of blonde bombshell, a phenomenon that a world still recovering from the nightmare of war didn’t quite know it was waiting for. Then, in 1956, Vadim offered her the astonishing role of the fierce and savage Juliette in … And God Created Woman. The movie was poorly received in France—its sensational depiction of a small-town siren and her effect on the men around her rubbed a conservative culture the wrong way—but it triumphed in the U.S. After four years and 15 roles, Bardot had reached the top in a serious film.

“In fact, I owe everything to the Americans,” she explains. Ironically, she never made a movie in the United States, and she starred alongside very few American actors (Kirk Douglas being one of them). The success of … And God Created Woman did not bring Bardot the sort of personal satisfaction one might have anticipated. “All my life,” she says, “during that film, and before and after, I was never what I wanted to be, which was frank, honest, and straightforward. I wasn’t scandalous—I didn’t want to be. I wanted to be myself. Only myself.” In 1973, Bardot decided to bring her acting career to an end and begin a second life. Her screen image would henceforward be preserved in amber at a certain age, as it had been for Garbo and Monroe. “I was really sick of it,” Bardot says. “Good thing I stopped, because what happened to Marilyn Monroe and Romy Schneider would have happened to me.” Over the years she had turned down roles opposite Frank Sinatra, Steve McQueen (Faye Dunaway took the part in The Thomas Crown Affair), and Marlon Brando (leaving a million-dollar paycheck on the table).

When she was on location, making movies, she had often found herself picking up stray animals, even goats and sheep, destined for the pound or the slaughterhouse, and going as far as to shelter them in her hotel room. Perhaps it should not have been a surprise that she decided to dedicate herself to animal rights, and to the idea that animals deserve respect as living beings and are not merely a source of profit. “It’s what I dreamed of,” Bardot says now. “It’s what I always wanted.” She threw herself seriously into the animal-rights campaign beginning in 1977, with her efforts to end the killing of baby seals in Canada. She has stepped in to oppose the transport and slaughter of horses, vivisection, bullfights, industrial animal farms, hunting, the wearing of fur. To support the cause, Bardot sold many of her personal effects at auction—her dresses, her souvenirs, and even some of her jewelry, including a diamond ring, ruby bracelets, and a pearl necklace given to her by the German millionaire Gunter Sachs, her third husband.

(“I never get hung up on the past—the memories are too negative.”) Bardot’s work is embodied in the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals, based in Paris. She does not use a computer but is in constant communication with the foundation the old-fashioned way, writing in blue ink on blue sheets of paper that bear only the words “La Madrague, Saint-Tropez, 83990.” She works by a window at a rustic Provence table with a checked tablecloth. To her signature she adds a little daisy. “I don’t feel old or used up,” she says, “and I don’t have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause. Today, there are more regulations on cars than for animals.” From her home, she distributes good and bad marks to politicians around the world. Bardot is passionate and outspoken, and she has made controversial remarks on subjects such as immigration (a sensitive issue in France), and found herself in court as a result. But she is not a political person. “I am not playing political games,” she says. “I don’t care. I don’t bother with that.

I belong to no party and I am militant for no one. All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.” During the past few weeks, she has written to Paul Watson, a co-founder of Greenpeace, whose Sea Shepherd Conservation Society combats Japanese whale-hunters from a fleet of ships. (One of the boats carries Bardot’s name.) She has written to the French minister of foreign affairs, asking him to keep pressure on Japan, and to the French minister of agriculture, to call attention to the horrors of the slaughterhouses. She has even written to Vladimir Putin (Bardot is his favorite actress) to thank him for taking steps to protect wolves and for enacting a ban on the sealskin trade. She anticipates and dismisses a raised eyebrow at the overture to Putin: “I don’t care about looking conservative and awkward. I’m only looking to assuage my soul and protect the animals.” Bardot doesn’t leave La Madrague except to spend time at another house, La Garrigue, in the hills a few miles away, where she maintains a small chapel, and keeps horses, donkeys, cows, and pigs. She has not set foot in the port of St.

Tropez itself for more than 10 years; Jean-Michel, a stylist there, comes out occasionally to cut her hair. “I’m attached to the St. Tropez that I once knew,” Bardot says. “The old St. Tropez.” She is secluded but hardly a recluse: “I don’t refuse the world but its promiscuity.” She reads Le Figaro every morning and does the crossword puzzle. She listens only to Radio Classique. Ask about the writers she likes, and she will mention Milan Kundera, Bernard Clavel, and Konrad Lorenz. She is flattered by the exhibition of photographs that will open in Los Angeles in February and travel to Sofitel hotels around the country, but she will not be in attendance. Emphatically, Bardot does not live a Sunset Boulevard kind of life, trapped in her own legend. You will not find her engrossed in her old movies. As she herself sees it, she is in the prime of life. “The other day,” she said, “I came across … And God Created Woman on TV, which I haven’t seen in ages. I told myself that that girl wasn’t bad. But it was like it was someone other than me.

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Question: Who was Brigitte Bardot's first husband
Answer: Roger Vadim